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Removing fresh water tank

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Zeb Severson:
Hi,

I have a 2003 Patriot and this past march had to drop the fresh tank to replace my hydraulic slide hoses. I would think that your tank is very similar if not identical to mine. Here is the issue, if you get the tank out, you cant clean it. The 1 1/2 bung for the drain is the biggest access port and it is not sufficient to do much. My first recommendation is to take the drain plumbing off and see what the residue consists of. if it comes off fairly easily, its possible you could get two strong magnets (one on the inside and one on the outside to move a rag or scotchbrite around) to break up the debris and then rinse it out.

If that doesn't suffice then contact someone (marine shop?) that can modify and weld the tank to add an inspection hole to you can clean it. Come to think of it its possible there are some marine shops that can clean it without modifying it. I just posted a link to a pdf guide to removing the water tank in the technical forum.

Its also here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AeXKcHqlUVdo2RO15cUF_39gT_-Xf1oW/view?usp=share_link

Jose Rita:
Thank you all for the suggestions.  I haven’t followed up on this post since other things have happened with our coach.  Hopefully I will be getting it back soon and be able to clean the tank out.  At this point it looks like it will be a late fall project.  Thank you for the write up and photos as well as how to clean the tank.

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